American Quarterly Review, Volumen4Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1828 |
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... regard the philosophy of the human mind as a fruitless study . " Zeno , " says Dr. Reid , " en- deavoured to demonstrate the impossibility of motion ; Hobbes , that there was no difference between right and wrong ; and Hume , that no ...
... regard the philosophy of the human mind as a fruitless study . " Zeno , " says Dr. Reid , " en- deavoured to demonstrate the impossibility of motion ; Hobbes , that there was no difference between right and wrong ; and Hume , that no ...
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... regard its abstractions as real ex- istences independent of itself ; and it was this tendency that gave rise to the doctrine of universals . The notion that form was any thing more than a mere abstraction of the mind , has been long ...
... regard its abstractions as real ex- istences independent of itself ; and it was this tendency that gave rise to the doctrine of universals . The notion that form was any thing more than a mere abstraction of the mind , has been long ...
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... regard as important the views they exhibit . The result is , that our associa- tions are merely simple suggestions , which succeed in a particu- lar order according to certain relations , as those of resemblance , proximity , contrast ...
... regard as important the views they exhibit . The result is , that our associa- tions are merely simple suggestions , which succeed in a particu- lar order according to certain relations , as those of resemblance , proximity , contrast ...
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... regard to time . When we think of the warmth and verdure of summer , and the cold and desolation of the winter which is to succeed , we feel a relation of antecedence and consequence , to which the notion of time is so essential , that ...
... regard to time . When we think of the warmth and verdure of summer , and the cold and desolation of the winter which is to succeed , we feel a relation of antecedence and consequence , to which the notion of time is so essential , that ...
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... regard that only as beautiful , which not merely pleases ourselves , but which we know will generally please . Thus beauty is not any essence , which exists in every object that excites the emotion , but a general term , which we apply ...
... regard that only as beautiful , which not merely pleases ourselves , but which we know will generally please . Thus beauty is not any essence , which exists in every object that excites the emotion , but a general term , which we apply ...
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Página 282 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Página 282 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid ; star of the east, the horizon adorning, guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Página 147 - In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell; Earthly these passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birth -, But love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth; from heaven it came, to heaven...
Página 397 - Marshal of the district into which they are brought ; and to appoint a proper person or persons, residing upon the coast of Africa, as agent or agents for receiving the negroes, mulattoes, or persons of colour, delivered from on board vessels seized in the prosecution of the Slave Trade by commanders of The United States
Página 284 - Thou art gone to the grave ; but we will not deplore thee; Whose God was thy ransom, thy guardian, and guide : He gave thee, he took thee, and he will restore thee ; And death has no sting, for the Saviour hasoied.
Página 396 - The object, to which its attention is to be exclusively directed, is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free people of color residing in our country in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem most expedient.
Página 196 - Shakspearc and Milton, like gods in the fight, Have put their whole drama and epic to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope. Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, \ and will beat forty more...
Página 274 - Committee, that it is the duty of this country to promote the interest and happiness of the native inhabitants of the British dominions in India, and thai such measures ought to be adopted, as may tend to the introduction among them of useful knowledge, and of religious and moral improvement.
Página 282 - Cold on his cradle the dew-drops are shining, Low lies his head with the beasts of the stall ; Angels adore him in slumber reclining, Maker and Monarch and Saviour of all.